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Saved from Ourselves
Responsive Reading
William McQuaig
Leader: Each one of us entered the world with a sin nature. God entered the world to take it away. Christmas commemorates the day and the way God saved us from ourselves. Look carefully at the words the angel spoke to Joseph.
All: 20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
(Matthew 1:20-21, NIV)
Leader: We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase “save his people from their sins,” but Joseph would have. The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua, which means “Yahweh saves.” Who was Jesus?
Leader: What did Jesus come to do?
Leader: All the love of God was in Jesus. All the strength of God was in Jesus. All the compassion and power and devotion of God were, for a time, in the earthly body of a carpenter. No wonder the winds obeyed when Jesus spoke;
All: He was God speaking.
Leader: No wonder the bacteria fled when Jesus touched the wounds;
All: He was God touching.
Leader: No wonder the water held him as he walked;
“At Christmas all roads lead home” –
Marjorie Holmes
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas” –
Calvin Coolidge
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others” – Bob Hope
“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand” – Dr. Suess
“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
Washington Irving
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Because Of Bethlehem
Love Is Born...
Hope Is Here